david_allison

il y a 12 joursdiscuss

> Like software, elementary school education is also a pool for adults on the autism spectrum substantially higher than general population average.

Interesting! Do you have a source for this?

david_allison

il y a 14 joursdiscuss

There's an arena/research report by Ozzie Kirkby and Andy Matuschak at https://memory-machines.com/ which you might find interesting.

I predict that things will be 'good' within the next 5 years, but your intuition is correct (and the SOTA models are often producing worse prompts than older models).

david_allison

le mois dernierdiscuss

I have a large amount, some are occasionally useful when debugging.

david_allison

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

> Mirrors Edge Catalyst

Are you sure? I played in 2024 on PC and it was playable.

david_allison

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

We define our API into the Rust via protobufs[0] and some codegen.

The wrapper around these is very lean, FFI-based[1], it's abstracted to a library so Android devs never need to know there's rust/codegen involved.

We then define a light Kotlin-based wrapper around the protobuf-generated API[2]. This is a candidate to move to Kotlin multiplatform in the near future (mostly for test speed improvements).

[0] https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/main/proto

[1] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android-Backend/blob/a0428...

[2] https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/68192585a7ae4...

david_allison

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

> I'd happily share if "share" still meant "drop a gist." It doesn't, anymore.

It still does. Feel free to use https://unmaintained.tech/ on your repo.

david_allison

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

1.1 Contribute to society and to human well-being, acknowledging that all people are stakeholders in computing.

1.2 Avoid harm.

1.3 Be honest and trustworthy.

1.4 Be fair and take action not to discriminate.

1.5 Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works, and computing artifacts.

1.6 Respect privacy.

1.7 Honor confidentiality.

2.1 Strive to achieve high quality in both the processes and products of professional work.

2.2 Maintain high standards of professional competence, conduct, and ethical practice.

2.3 Know and respect existing rules pertaining to professional work.

2.4 Accept and provide appropriate professional review.

2.5 Give comprehensive and thorough evaluations of computer systems and their impacts, including analysis of possible risks.

2.6 Perform work only in areas of competence.

2.7 Foster public awareness and understanding of computing, related technologies, and their consequences.

2.8 Access computing and communication resources only when authorized or when compelled by the public good.

2.9 Design and implement systems that are robustly and usably secure.

3.1 Ensure that the public good is the central concern during all professional computing work.

3.2 Articulate, encourage acceptance of, and evaluate fulfillment of social responsibilities by members of the organization or group.

3.3 Manage personnel and resources to enhance the quality of working life.

3.4 Articulate, apply, and support policies and processes that reflect the principles of the Code.

3.5 Create opportunities for members of the organization or group to grow as professionals.

3.6 Use care when modifying or retiring systems.

3.7 Recognize and take special care of systems that become integrated into the infrastructure of society.

4.1 Uphold, promote, and respect the principles of the Code.

4.2 Treat violations of the Code as inconsistent with membership in the ACM.

david_allison

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

  Location: Isle of Man/Europe
  Remote: Yes - Experience working with US/International teams
  Willing to relocate: Yes - For the right role. Happy to be on-site for onboarding
  Technologies: Kotlin, Android, TypeScript, React, .NET, Java, CI/CD, Accessibility, i18n
  Email: [email protected]
  GitHub: https://github.com/david-allison

Open source maintainer/top contributor of AnkiDroid: Android client for Anki. 10M+ downloads. ~10 YOE, with 6 YOE open source (4,000+ commits). Ready for stability after years of contracting and maintainership.

I lead a global volunteer team and take full product ownership: setting direction over multi-year horizons, planning and implementing architectural migrations, and keeping a project moving via community engagement, triage, fixes, reviews and mentorship.

Highlights:

  - AnkiDroid now releases in tandem with upstream, rather than lagging behind by years
  - Migrated a 15-year-old codebase from Java 7 to Kotlin, maintaining git blame
  - Migrated to a common Rust-based backend. Android contributors are fully isolated from this complexity
  - Improved app rating from 4.5 to ~4.8 stars, dramatically reduced crash rate
  - Mentored hundreds of contributors and co-launched AnkiDroid's Google Summer of Code programme

AnkiDroid continues as a hobby; my day job is fully separate.

Looking for: full-time or contract. IC or EM, I'm nontraditional so I'm open to a conversation about which fits. Drawn to work that makes people's lives better, in any stack.

david_allison

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Thank you!

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

> How could Stack Overflow succeed in a post-chatgpt eta?

As a data source for LLMs, and by becoming the place someone goes where ChatGPT can't produce a sufficient answer.

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

It's $50,000 per statement

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

What if it's used for training data? It seems like there's no penalty for training on copyrighted materials.

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Oh wow, thank you so much!!!!!

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Is this available online? I'd love documentation of my prompts.

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per...

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per...

Fear-mongering. Not even dangerous permissions. Granted on install

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

IMO: That's just due to the speed of responses.

Hardware will continue to improve, and eventually you'll have the choice of reaching a flow state with 2026 models, or using frontier models at our current level of performance.

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Very unusual: 47.0.1 is showing these permissions when on my MacBook viewing the store entry.

The Play Store doesn't show these permissions when viewed on my Pixel 9 Pro, and the APK doesn't have these permissions when downloaded/extracted.

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

You need to state the permissions you *may* request/use in AndroidManifest.xml. This data can then be displayed to users pre-installation.

From the (limited) article, it doesn't seem they do this: https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app#p...

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EDIT: I'm mistaken. From the Play Store[0] it has access to

* approximate location (network-based)

* precise location (GPS and network-based)

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.whitehouse...

This seems to disagree with:

> The location permissions aren't declared in the AndroidManifest but requested at runtime

*shrug*, someone should dig deeper. It looks like the article may not match reality.

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

Cheers!

david_allison

il y a 4 moisdiscuss

I have GitHub Copilot Pro. I don't believe I signed up for it. I neither use it nor want it.

1. A lot of settings are 'Enabled' with no option to opt out. What can I do?

2. How do I opt out of data collection? I see the message informing me to opt out, but 'Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training' is already disabled for my account.

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